TEXAS LEGAL INFORMATION

• Texas Secretary of State's office, home page for business formation
• Texas Articles of Organization for an LLC (PDF)
• Texas Articles of Organization for an LLC (Word)
• Filing Fee: $200.
• Name: It shall either contain the words "Limited Liability Company" or "Limited Company" or the abbreviations "L.L.C.," "LLC," "LC," or "L.C." and shall contain such additional words as may be required by law. The word "Limited" may be abbreviated as "Ltd." or "LTD" and the word "Company" may be abbreviated as "Co." See Texas Business and Organizations Code, § 5.056.
• Texas Statutes relative to Limited Liability Companies See Title 3.
• Company agreements (as operating agreements are called in Texas) for single member LLCs are enforceable in Texas under Title 3, Section 100.101(1) of the Texas Business Organizations Code (Note: the statute uses a double negative--"are not unenforceable", meaning they are enforceable.)
  • The name of a professional limited liability company must contain the words professional limited liability company or the abbreviation P.L.L.C. or PLLC. (Sec.5.059 BOC).

LLC Operating Agreement Form Price: $16.99 (free trial) PLLC Operating Agreement Form Price: $20.99 (free trial) Note: for Professional Services LLC called "PLLC".

• § 11.056. SUPPLEMENTAL PROVISIONS FOR LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY.
      (a) The termination of the continued membership of the last remaining member of a domestic limited liability company is an event requiring winding up under Section 11.051(4) unless, not later than the 90th day after the date of the termination, the legal representative or successor of the last remaining member agrees:
              (1) to continue the company; and
              (2) to become a member of the company effective as of the date of the termination or to designate another person who agrees to become a member of the company effective as of the date of the termination.
      (b) The event requiring winding up specified in Subsection (a) may be canceled in accordance with Sections 11.152(a) and 101.552(c).
  
  
• § 101.107. WITHDRAWAL OR EXPULSION OF MEMBER PROHIBITED. A member of a limited liability company may not withdraw or be expelled from the company.
  
  
• § 301.003. DEFINITIONS. In this title:
  (6) "Professional limited liability company" means a limited liability company formed for the purpose of providing a professional service and governed as a professional entity under this title.
  (7) "Professional organization," with respect to a professional corporation or a professional limited liability company, means a person other than an individual, whether nonprofit, for-profit, domestic, or foreign and including a nonprofit corporation or nonprofit association, that renders the same professional service as the professional corporation or professional limited liability company only through owners, members, managerial officials, employees, or agents, each of whom is a professional individual or professional organization.
  (8) "Professional service" means any type of service that requires, as a condition precedent to the rendering of the service, the obtaining of a license in this state, including the personal service rendered by an architect, attorney, certified public accountant, dentist, physician, public accountant, or veterinarian.